Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tonik suits were being worn in the day instead of only in the evenings . |
| 2 | Families living on income support are being forced to cut back on food and do without basic items , according to a survey by the Children 's Society . |
| 3 | Local support groups are being set up in different areas in London and they have good leaflets on various HIV related topics for women . |
| 4 | The metallic keg bitter was being poured rapidly into those disgusting plastic pint glasses ; and the sandwiches , a millimetre of filling between emasculated slices of white cotton wool masquerading as bread , and all safely encased in more white plastic , were also selling rapidly . |
| 5 | UNIVERSITY lecturers are being told by their union to inform colleagues if they get over-involved with their students . |
| 6 | The Scottish Natural Heritage budget is being increased by 28 per cent . |
| 7 | Sumisho Electronics Corp is is to distribute the parallel database servers from Bracknell , Berkshire-based White Cross Systems Ltd in Japan : three orders worth £750,000 have been placed for the 9010 Deskside Server — two for customers , one for Sumisho 's own Tokyo office . |
| 8 | Hose , stocking hose was being made in mass production and the craft of knitting , obviously , began to lose it 's , it 's sway . |
| 9 | Top hair stylists are being recruited for the Demon Barber , which is set to open this month , and the recently-opened designer sale shop stocks John Richmond , Val Pirou , Helen Storey and Jean Colonna at a snip of the original designer tag . |
| 10 | Having liaised with the National Trust , Anthony Daykin was able to reassure residents that wider firebreak swathes were being cut through the common . |
| 11 | The datasets supplied by the Census Offices under the Initiative comprise the following : the Small Area Statistics and Local Base Statistics ( SAS/LBS ) , which are sets of tables covering all aspects of the Census in Great Britain , the Special Migration and Special Workplace Statistics , which are matrices dealing with migration and journey to work , a postcode/Enumeration District ( ED ) directory , and digitised boundary data ( compiled by the EDLINE consortium ) corresponding to various geographical zones for which Census data is being released . |
| 12 | Applications for grant aid are being made to various bodies , including The Development Board for Rural Wales . |
| 13 | However it was not long before the majority rule was being challenged by a special circumstances doctrine , and by an even wider rule that directors owed fiduciary duties to shareholder per se . |
| 14 | In addition cars are being converted to run on compressed natural gas ( CNG ) and it is hoped that 200,000 will have been modified by 1990 . |
| 15 | Even kitchen utensils are being sold along with a job lot of washing machines , dryers and ironing machines for £200 . |
| 16 | A new-style community care support force is being set up to maintain the health service 's momentum on implementing the reforms . |
| 17 | It is a possibility which should always be borne in mind when neck spasm is being treated , particularly if it does not respond as expected to tension-release techniques . |
| 18 | In addition , other study groups are being set up in three other subject areas , namely agriculture , architecture and teacher training . |
| 19 | Clearly the financial standing of the buyer/ drawee acceptor is being relied upon , and a certain risk will attach to non-payment . |
| 20 | BRITAIN 'S crime wave is being blamed on … global warming . |
| 21 | Research programmes were being stretched out in time and slowed down , and experiments were having to be cancelled as priorities were reassessed . |
| 22 | First , secondary analysis of General Household Survey data and where appropriate of data from TCRU research projects is being undertaken . |
| 23 | At present a number of research projects are being undertaken within the school including the editing of the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection , a collection of 3,000 texts and tunes of traditional songs from North-East Scotland . |
| 24 | The Welding Regulations 1970 impose a statutory duty on employers and employees that : " safety goggles must as far as is practicable be worn at all times when welding operations are being carried out " . |
| 25 | The puritan ethic was being replaced by the Hedonist ethic , right there in the heartland . |
| 26 | However , what the net result of the activity has been is unclear , as DEC says it is now closing down its VLIW-on-Alpha work — having failed to enlighten us as to the reasons why — but , at the instruction level , it is thought that Multiflow 's trace compilers were being pressed into service to boost the speed at which the RISC could execute programmes . |
| 27 | Entry forms are being sent to publishers this month . |
| 28 | BUDDING young jazz musicians are being given the chance to shine with the launch this autumn of the Ulster Schools ' Jazz Orchestra . |
| 29 | When asked if she thought Outdoor Action readers were being petty in writing to complain about blocked paths , her reply was forceful to say the least . |
| 30 | Given the density of heroin-using networks , word spread quickly that a research programme was being undertaken and later informants frequently mentioned that the fieldworker had previously interviewed someone known to them . |